The Black Dakotas Page #3

Miles seem to be getting longer.

We're about halfway.

(SIOUX SHOUTING)

War Cloud's reception committee?

No, that's a war cry.

Ride and shoot.

That's Black Buffalo's

renegades!

(FIRES GUN)

(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)

(GUNFIRE)

(SPEAKING NATIVE AMERICAN

LANGUAGE)

I'm on my way to talk

peace with War Cloud.

Why do his braves

try to kill me?

Sioux want no peace

with white man.

(ALL AGREEING)

Those papers are from the

President of the United States.

They'll prove to War Cloud

that what I say is true.

We take you to Black

Buffalo in Dry Canyon.

He know what papers say.

(BOTH SPEAKING

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE)

You have killed

Black Buffalo's brother.

- You will die for this today.

- What?

- (COMMANDS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

- I had nothing to do with it.

(ALL EXCLAIMING)

The Sioux have got

Zachary Paige!

Eight of Black Buffalo's

renegades

ambushed us on the

way to meet War Cloud.

They kill Paige?

No. They're taking him to

Black Buffalo in Dry Canyon.

Paige is Lincoln's man.

We're getting him back.

If they kill Paige,

we'll all be massacred.

- Where's the Marshal?

- I don't know. We can't wait.

Well, am I going alone?

- MEN:
No.

- Come on.

These writings,

they make big promises.

We have had many big promises.

This time, they'll be kept.

As soon as your chief, War

Cloud, agrees to the treaty.

War Cloud is an old woman.

His blood is cold.

He'll let the white man

steal the Sioux hunting

grounds, kill our people.

(ALL AGREEING)

Today, this man has

killed my brother.

No, no, I didn't.

It is the same.

He is dead.

The white man talks of peace,

but they come here and kill.

We kill, too.

(COMMANDS IN

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE)

These lies on paper

will start the fire.

If you kill me, it'll

bring the soldiers back.

What can they find?

Only ashes.

The white man and the red man

can live in peace together.

You have never tried for peace.

Always you fight us.

War Cloud would believe me.

Yes, he would believe you.

That is why

he must not meet you.

He is not good for the Sioux.

Soon he will die.

I will be chief.

(SPEAKING NATIVE-AMERICAN

LANGUAGE)

Black Buffalo is

great Indian coward.

Black Buffalo is Chief Coward.

All Indians are cowards.

(SIOUX EXCLAIMING ANGRILY)

It's easy to be brave when you have

me tied and I can't fight back.

When you kill like this,

without giving me a chance,

the Great Spirit above

will call you cowards.

He will not welcome you.

Cowards never go to the Happy

Hunting Ground when they die.

Only brave warriors.

(BOTH SPEAKING

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE)

No Indian is coward.

Indian warrior is brave.

You will have good chance

to save your life.

(COMMANDS IN

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE)

You'll give me a fast horse

and a running start?

No. No horse.

But you will have good chance

to save your life from fire.

If Spotted Deer

light fire, you burn.

If not, you go free.

What do I use to stop him with?

This.

You asked for chance.

You have it.

(EXCLAIMS)

I won. You've got

to let me go!

You lost.

The fire is burning.

He didn't light it.

He's dead.

The fire is burning.

(ALL EXCLAIMING)

(GUNSHOT)

(SPEAKING NATIVE AMERICAN

LANGUAGE)

It would be very easy for me

to have these men kill you

as you wanted to kill me.

But I do not lie about promises.

The Great White Father

loves his Indian brothers.

He does not want to kill.

Let these men get on their

ponies and go free.

Let 'em go free?

After we caught 'em in cold-blooded

torture. They need killing.

If we kill them,

it may mean war.

What I'm trying to do

is keep the peace.

MIKE:
Mr. Paige

is right.

Keeping the Indians at peace

is the most important thing.

Let them go back to War Cloud

and tell him what happened.

That'll show our sincerity and

may help me with the treaty.

Return to War Cloud and tell

him I've spared your lives,

and that I'll have council with him

tomorrow when the sun is high.

(SPEAKS NATIVE AMERICAN

LANGUAGE)

All right, men,

let's put out this fire.

GIMPY:
Paige.

Are you crazy?

We don't want them Indians

to stay peaceful.

Yes, we do. Till

we get that gold.

Here's your gun,

Mr. Paige.

Black Buffalo won't need it.

Well, I guess I've got a lot

to thank you for, Mike.

Well, the luck was

with both of us.

Otherwise, you'd be an angel by now.

Or something.

Either that or a cinder.

MARSHAL:
Take him into the

room back of my office, boys.

Who is it, Whit?

Who is it?

I don't know. Some

easterner, I guess,

judgin' from his clothes.

An easterner?

We haven't had any easterners

around here in a month.

Except Zachary Paige.

This man was just killed today.

Bullet in his heart.

You don't say. Murder.

Well, how'd you know about it?

Where'd you find him?

He was buried

in a shallow grave,

not far from the stage line.

Coyotes had dug him up.

One of the Tatum boys saw

buzzards droppin' down

and he told me about it.

Oh, say, if you see

this Mr. Paige,

will you tell him I want

to have a talk with him?

Sure thing, Whit.

If he gets back.

BOGGS:
I say she ought to

get out of town,

and stay out for good.

Just try and make me

get out of town.

Well, we don't have to

take that kind of talk.

Not from the daughter

of no Southern spy.

Just one more step,

Mr. Grimes.

Ah, that's enough of that.

Now, look out, Marshal.

She don't like you none.

That's right, Marshal,

I don't like you.

Nor you, Judge Baker.

And if either of you tell me that

I can't walk on the sidewalk,

that I can't even

buy food in this town...

No, no, my dear.

Nothing of the kind.

You buy anything you want.

Ruth, for your own good, you

ought to stay out of town

until things cool off.

I'll come into town just

as often as I want to.

And I'll advise you not

to try and stop me.

Because next time I have either

of you in my gun sights,

I may not be able

to resist the temptation.

(EXCLAIMS) For a minute, I thought she

was going to let both of you have it.

Well, I must say, my introduction

to your Indian problem out here

was a pretty rough one.

If it hadn't been for Mike, Gimpy

Joe, and the rest of these men,

my mission would have been

ended right now. So would I.

I wonder if I could have a little

talk with you in my office.

Certainly.

What's it about?

Well, it's about a man

whose body we found

about 20 miles from town.

An easterner.

Well, I don't know whether I'll

be able to help you, Marshal,

but I'll try.

All right if I buy these

boys a drink first?

I think you better

come inside now.

Very well.

Go ahead, boys. I'll

join you in a minute.

Well, after you, Marshal.

You ever see him before?

Never.

There are a few questions

I want to ask you, Mr. Paige.

Somebody's committed

a murder in my territory,

and it's my job

to find the murderer.

It's just possible

that you can help me.

Well, I don't know how, Marshal,

but if I can, I will.

Good.

Now, as I said,

the man's an easterner.

About the only way a man can

get here, short of riding,

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